Hi everyone

This month we’ve focussed on a match engine update and also responding to user feedback to provide balancing and other changes to the gameplay. Details on these below.

The squad limits in particular we’ve had numerous pieces of feedback that the system wasn’t flexible enough so we’ve made changes to the system to make it much more flexible.

We have also progressed with work on localisation within the game client and we are now very close to the game being fully playable for non-English speakers in any languages we have translations for. Note: if you are multilingual and are able to help with translations, you can do so via the new official 90MF Discord server https://discord.gg/qFZZ3xn2Kf. Any help is very much appreciated.

Match Engine Update

The match engine update primarily focuses on player movement when not in possession of the ball, especially when defending. For example you may notice that defenders tend to work better as a unit pushing up in their defensive line, and also cover for each other much better regarding missed tackles.

Squad Limits

The squad limits system has been 'upgraded' on dev to be more flexible. The maximum number of players is still 50 but the composition of those players can be pretty much anything you want, so long as you are able to field a youth team (i.e. you need 16 youth outfielders and 2 youth goalkeepers).

Technically speaking these are the new Max limits:

• max 50 players in total
• max 47 out of those 50 can be outfielders
• max 8 out of those 50 can be keepers

Or to put another way, you can now have between 3 and 8 keepers, and the number of outfielders you can have is equal to 50 minus the number of keepers you have.

The Min limits are unchanged:

• min 25 outfielders total (at least 16 of which must be youth players)
• min 3 keepers total (at least 2 of which must be youth players)

Discord Server

90 Minute Fever has now has an official Discord Server:
https://discord.gg/qFZZ3xn2Kf

Full Changelog

Match Engine Changes:

• Significant improvements to defensive line handling
• Significant improvements to defensive positioning/coordination between players
• Minor improvements to attacking positioning, specifically that players should hopefully advance a little more aggressively when supporting an attack
• Some minor decision making improvements to passing (longer diagonal passes should go out of play a little less often in general)
• Fixed issue with GK not positioning correctly to defend corners

Other Changes:

• Added ‘Help’ ? feature/button (top right of screen)
• Squad limits system update (more flexible now)
• Added news item on home layout to let you know if you have any unregistered players
• The news widget on the home layout has been updated so we can communicate messages to individual users if needed (for example to provide responses to feedback submitted with a bug someone might be facing)
• Added tab on Marquee Player view to see the previous days Marquee Player Auction results
• Added auto-renew option for those paying with monthly Supporter Club Membership using legacy tokens
• Increased width of opponent pausing text field in matches (to hopefully make it a little more clear that the time remaining is your time not their time)
• Fixed player line separator not always appearing correctly on players list on left during matches
• 99% of all in-game text is now part of the localization system
• Various minor layout updates to help text localized into other languages fit a little better
• Updates to Greek translations
• Fixed rare bug that could allow a player to have more than 3 positions in total (only 2 players were impacted by this, and they’ve been regression fixed to have only the first 3 positions they acquired)
• Added ability to view other leagues via up/down arrows on competition pages (released 28th April)